Presenters: H

Joel Haber

Joel is a licensed Israeli tour guide, specialising in culinary tours and tours focused on archaeology and religion. A dedicated Limmudnik, he has helped organise many Limmuds, and has presented at many more. He’s currently writing a book that uses Jewish food as a window onto our cultural history.

Caroline Hagard

Caroline has been teaching for many years in religion schools. A story teller, song-writer and creator of children's services for the High Holy Days/chagim, she is passionate about Judaism and her sessions are great fun. In her spare time she is a full-time medical secretary.

Guy Hall

Guy is a rabbi and psychoanalyst, living in London and working throughout Europe.

Shabbat and Hanukah Programming

Welcome from the Shabbat Chanukah team 2019

Hanan Harchol

Hanan Harchol is the creator of Jewish Food For Thought, a free animated series teaching Jewish ethics through conversations between Hanan and his Israeli parents. Featured on Channel 13, Jewish Life TV, Shalom TV, NY & SF Jewish Film Festivals, his work and participation at Limmud Festival is generously funded by The Covenant Foundation.

Elizabeth Harris-Sawczenko

Elizabeth is the director of the Council of Christians and Jews. She is a former director at New Israel Fund in Jerusalem and a trustee of the Abraham Initiatives. Elizabeth holds a BA in English and Philosophy, an MA in Contemporary Jewry and an MSc in Charity Management.

Samson Hart

Samson Hart is a researcher, writer, activist, community gardener, and earth-based Jewish diasporist. He has an MA in Economics for Transition from Schumacher College, and has spent time at Adamah, a Jewish diasporist farm in Connecticut, and the Arava Institute in Israel-Palestine.

Kelly Hartog

Kelly Hartog is managing editor of the Los Angeles Jewish Journal. Born in the UK, she made aliyah from Australia in 1993. An editor with the Jerusalem Post, she survived a suicide bombing in Kenya in 2002 and moved to LA in 2004. She specialises in covering war zones and the aftermath of trauma.

Yszi Hawkings

Yszi first attended Festival in 2010 and was on the team almost every year. She joined the Limmud Global Board in Jan 2018 with the technology, logistics & knowledge management portfolio. She is passionate about public health, in which she has a Masters degree. This is her first time presenting.

Holly Blue Hawkins

Natural Death Care advocate, speaker, author, musician and poet, rosha of The Santa Cruz Community Chevrah Kadisha in California, and faculty with Gamliel Institute, Holly Blue provides training in a wide variety of end-of-life subjects in both Jewish and secular settings.

Roni Hazon Weiss

Roni is the principle of Dror High School in Jerusalem and a Jerusalem activist, religious feminist and a mother. Roni partakes in the struggle for change in the public sphere and fight against the exclusion of women and the return of women's pictures to billboards, the struggle for kashrut and mikvahs, and more.

The Hearth

From Friday night to Tuesday night, room G26 will become The Hearth. Rachel Rose Reid (Yelala) curates this space hosting sessions that focus on reflection, connection, meditation & experiential learning. During 'Open Hearth' sessions you can use the space for quiet contemplation.

Louise Heilbron

Louise is an ex-teacher who now works in museums. She is a Holocaust educator and an amateur embroiderer, who creates Judaica and new traditions, and likes to encourage others to do the same.

Michael Heilbron

Michael is a rabbi and dentist. He was at the Bradford Synagogue and North West Reform synagogues before heading Centre for Jewish Education. Retired from dentistry, still seen from time to time as a rabbi.

Rachel Heilbron

Rachel is Mikveh Project Director as well as Operations Director of Centre for London. She worked at the Three Faiths Forum, the British Library, Save the Children, the Science Museum, JCORE. Her passion for education and social justice came from her involvement with RSY and strong family influence.

Karen Heilig

Karen Heilig, Asst. Executive Vice President, Claims Conference, has participated in all negotiations on Holocaust era restitution & compensation with the German and Austrian Governments since 1999. She is on the front lines of billion dollar agreements that attempt to deliver a measure of justice.

Daniel Heller

Dan is one of the co-chairs of this year’s fantastic Festival team. For work, Dan‘s focus is on improving access to urgent community response services for the NHS in London. His interests are sport, community, history and music, as well as Jewish influences on popular culture.

Naomi Henkel-Guembel

Naomi Henkel-Guembel grew up in Germany and made Aliyah. She is engaged in community development in Tel Aviv and Berlin. Naomi has an MA in Counter-Terrorism and Homeland Security from the Lauder School and is a trained therapist. She is a rabbinical student at Zacharias Frankel College.

Charlotte Henry

Charlotte has worked freelance and on the staff for a variety of major publications. She is currently the UK Associate Editor of the Macobserver and a contributor to The Article, Reaction, Times Red Box, amongst others. Her first book 'Not Buying It - the facts behind fake news' came out in June.

Jake Herman

Jake is the marketing manager for UK Jewish Film. He has a degree in Middle Eastern Studies and Hebrew from the University of Manchester, spending a year at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He previously worked in marketing for the New Israel Fund and Totora Hospice (Auckland).

Stephen Herman

Steve Herman is on the advisory board of Shema, the Jewish environmental network. Shema’s mission is to motivate and enable Jewish people and organisations to play their full part in adapting to and preventing further ecological breakdown and climate change.

Marion Hersh

Senior lecturer/associate professor, Biomedical Engineering, Glasgow University. Strong commitment to equality, diversity & human rights. Shomer shabbat. Member of Jews for Justice for Palestinians Executive. Speak 8 languages reasonably fluently and use language knowledge in research abroad.

Isaac Herzog

Isaac was elected chairman of the executive of The Jewish Agency in June 2018. He previously served as a member of Knesset (Israeli parliament) for over fifteen years, including as chairman of the Israel Labor Party, opposition leader and leading candidate for prime minister in the 2015 election.

Claire Hilton

Claire Hilton, psychiatrist, historian, mother of three, rabbi's wife, is learning Arabic and wants to teach you the letters, starting from a knowledge of the Hebrew alphabet.

Michael Hilton

Michael Hilton is scholar in residence at Liberal Jewish Synagogue, London, lectures at Leo Baeck College, and is an Hon research fellow at Manchester University. He is author of “The Christian Effect on Jewish Life” and “Bar Mitzvah: A History.” He has recently rediscovered how interesting grammar is.

David Hochhauser

I split my time between being an artist and research assistant at the KCL Conflict & Health department. My art draws alot from R B Kitaj's Second Diaspora Manifesto, around the idea of 'Jewish art' as its own genre.

David Hoffman

David is a Jewish rock musician and songwriter from Manchester where he leads ‘Shir Chadash’ musical services. He has several albums out as ‘the Magic If’. David is also a longstanding Limmud volunteer, and has just finished his three year term as chair of Limmud.

Happie Hoffman

Happie lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma and spends her time singing with and building musical communities around the world. Happie is an award-winning indie-folk artist whose 2016 album, It's Yours by Eric & Happie, debuted at #11 on the iTunes singer-songwriter chart.

Noëmi Holtz

Noëmi Holtz is a Gestalt psychotherapist, educator and passionate reader.

Jonathan Hunter

When not at Limmud events, Jonathan spends a large amount of his leisure time at various Modern Jive dance events around the country, and is very much looking forward to sharing the joy of dancing with all at Limmud Festival this year!

Ilana Hutchinson

Ilana is the Education Manager at Jewish Women’s Aid. Her work in schools engages young people to discuss healthy relationships and consent. As her first time back at Limmud since her youth movement days, she is excited to spark discussions and raise awareness of JWA amongst the Limmud community.

Joe Hyman

Joe Hyman recently returned from a year at Yeshivat Hadar, a halachic egalitarian Yeshiva in New York, where he explored the intersection between art and Torah. Joe is a proud religious gay Jew and has spent time working over the past few years to create space for LGBT+ Jews in the Jewish community.

Tash Hyman

Natasha is a theatre director and dramaturg. She is a 2019 finalist for the JMK Award and an associate of The National Youth Theatre. She was Resident Director with The European Theatre Convention in 2018, Trainee Director at Leeds Playhouse 2016/7 and a graduate of the MFA Theatre Directing at Birkbeck.